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UNITED STATES PATENT O FICE.

EUGENE M. FLORENTIN AND ALBERT T. FALVEY, OF TAUNTON, MASS.

SELF-FASTENING SKATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,773, dated April 2'7, 1886.

Application filed February 23, 1886. Serial No. 193,084. (No model.)

To all? whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, EUGENE M. FLOREN- TINand ALBERT T. FALVEY, of Taunton, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Self-Fastening Exchangeable Skates, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be hadto the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of one of our improved skates. Fig. 2 is an under side view of the same, partly in section, and with the runner detached. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the skate. Fig. 4 is a sectional side elevation of the skate, taken through the line 00 at, Fig. 1, and shown with the runner replaced with rollers. Fig. 5 is a plan view of a pair of rollers.

The object of this invention is to provide skates constructed in such a manner as to fasten themselves to the shoes of the skater as soon as the skates have been put on, and which can be readily adjusted to fit larger or smaller shoes.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of various parts of the skate, as will be hereinafter fully described.

A represents a skate-stock, which is made of a metal plate of suitable shape and size, and has a curved flange, B, upon its rear end, to serve as a guide in centering the skate upon a shoe-sole.

O are the clasps by means of which the forward part of the skate is secured to the forward part of the shoe-sole. The arms of the clasps G slide in keepers D, attached to the forward part of the stock A, and are held apart by a spiral spring, E, interposed between to screw into the opposite ends of the long not I, so that the said rod can be lengthened or shortened, as may be required. If desired, one end of the long nut I can be swiveled to one of the adjacent ends of the rod H, and the other end of the said nut can be screwed upon the other adjacent end of the said rod.

The rear end of the rod H is widened vertically, and in it is formed a curved slot,which is arranged with its concave side forward. To the slotted rear end of the rod H is pivoted the slotted forward end of a short lever, J. The lever J is pivoted at its middle part to lugs attached to the stock A, and to its slotted setscrew, N, which passes through a screwhole in the lower side of the tubular shank of the clasp M, and rests against the lower side of the said rod H. The lower side of the rod H has a number of indentations formed in it, to receive the point of the set-screw N, to prevent the said set-screw from slipping upon the said rod.

0 is the rear heelclasp, the shank of which is made in angular shape, and is hinged at its angle to the stock A or the lower part of the flange B by a wire staple, P, or other suitable means.

The clasp O is held back, holding the forward end of its shank against the lower side of the button L, by a spring, Q, attached to the said clasp, and which rests upon the stock A.

NVith this construction, when the skate-stock has been adjusted upon the sole of the shoe and the foot is pressed down upon the said stock, the button L and standard K will be pressed down, and will operate the lever J to draw the rod H to the rearward, which rearward movement of the said rodHoperates the clasps O M and causes them to grasp the side edges of the shoe-sole and the forward side of the shoe-heel. The downward movement of the button L also operates the clasp O and ICO causes it to grasp the rear side of the shoe-heel.

The rod H is held in place, when drawn back by a downward pressure upon the button L, by a spring-pawl, R, attached to the stock A, and which engages with annular ratchet-teeth formed upon the said rod H. The pawl B may be made with a single jaw, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and I, or with double jaws engaging with the opposite sides of the said rod H.

Then the shoe-heel is so shaped that it can be pressed firmly against the flange B, the rear clasp, 0, need not be used.

To the centers of the forward and rear parts of the stock A are attached bearings S, to receive the dovetailed heads T, attached to the skate-runner U, as shown in Fig. 3, or formed upon the upper ends of thestandards V, formed upon the axles V of the rollers X. The heads T are secured in place in the dovetailed bearings S by screws Y, passing through holes in the stock A and screwing into the said heads T.

WVith this construction the skate can be readily changed to a roller-skate or from a roller-skate to an ice-skate by simply taking out the screws Y.

The front and rearsides of the head T of the forward pair of rollers X are slightly rounded, so that the said head can have a slight lateral rock in the bearing S, to adapt the skate for use in fancy skatlng.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In askate, the combination,with the stock A, of the forward clasps, 0, held apart by a spring, E, the heel-clasp M, provided with a tubular shank and a set-screw, N, the curved bars F, pivoted to the shanks of the clasps G, the studs G, attached to the stock A, the connecting-rod II, made in two parts connected by a long nut, I, and provided with annular ratchet-teeth, the spring-pawl It, to engage with the said ratchet-teeth, the pivoted lever J, connected with the said connectingrod, and the stud K and button L, substantially as herein shown and described, whereby the said clasps will be operated to clamp the shoe sole and heel by a downward pressure upon the said button, as set forth.

2. In askate, the combination, with the stock A and the button L, of the pivoted angular clasp O and the spring Q, substantially as herein shown and described, whereby the said clasp will be operated to grasp the shoe-heel by the downward movement of the said button, as set forth.

3. The combination, with the skate-stock A, horizontally-movable sole-clamps, and a lon gitudinally-movable heel-clamp, of a longitudinal adjustable bar pivotally connecting the sole and heel clamps, and a button at the heel portion of the stock, having shank extending through the stock and pivotally connected to the connecting-rod for operating said rod and the clamps, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination, with the skate-stock A, of the bearings S, having transverse dovetailed recesses, the front and rear walls of the front recess being rounded, as shown, the dovetailed heads fitting in said transverse recesses, the front head being rounded on its front and rear sides, and the screws Y, passed through the stock into the said heads, substantially as set forth.

EUGENE M. FLORENTIN. ALBERT T. FALVEY.

WVitnesses:

JAMES B. DORGAN, ALEXANDER MQOAFFREY. 

